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Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
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We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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